de Jong, A. and van Amerongen-Assçher, L. (eds.). Haggadah 5705

(HAGADAH)

Drukkerij Hermes

Eindhoven

1945

Hebrew with nikud (vowel points) and Dutch translation face `a face. Printed from left to right. The beginning Hebrew text of the Kiddush (p.7), as well as the concluding Hebrew of Adir Hu and Le-Shanah ha-Ba'ah bi-Yerushalayim (p.20) have been improvised in a rudimentary Hebrew hand

Yudlov 3944; Yaari 2312

This Hagadah was issued by the "Joodsche Coördinatie Commissie voor het bevrijde Nederlandsche gebied" (Jewish Coordinating Commission for the Liberated Netherlands Governmment) in Southern liberated Holland, while the Northern part of the country was still occupied by the Germans. In their foreword the editors write that due to the annihilation of the Jews by the Germans, Hebrew books have become totally unavailable (p.4). The motto of the Hagadah is a poem by Dutch-Jewish poet Jacob Israel de Haan which rings prophetic in view of the events of the Holocaust: "Dat wij nog eenmaal, na den Nacht, den bangen / Het hoofd verheffen in een dag van pracht" (“Once more after the Night of anxieties / the head shall be raised high on a day of splendor.”)